Could someone recommend a good exterior paint brand? Which one, in your opinion, is the absolute best? Someone recommended Duron. I just don't know anything about it.

Many thanks in advance!

Hello,
There's many good brands, as long as you stay in the upper lines.
* GOOD PREP & PRIMING is more important than actual brand though.
* Bad (or NO!) prep. will soon render the best paint useless LONG b4 its normal life.
* This means scraping, sanding, priming....
* C2 is a newer brand that has a TOP-notch exterior. Harder to find though...only ~ 50 U.S. retailers. Averages in the $40's/gal. Their Exterior Eggshell looks very nice.
* Using only 1 coat of Paint on a primer is an "old-wives-tale"!!! 2 coats on a primecoat wears MUCH better.
* SW & BM have exteriors' in the same price-range.
* In the $20's/gal., ACE ROYAL is a very good paint. We go through a LOT of it.
* Average sf/gal is 400 for paints & primers.
* Don't use Oil. The new Latexes are better. Oils just become stiffer, and yellow much faster.

Faron

The previous post is correct on preperation being very important in an exterior paint job lasting longer.

The Duron brand will do very good by you but is sold only on the east coast, and you need to use either the Weathershield or Signature exterior line. The Sherwin Williams products are very good as well and you will want to use either Super Paint or Duration and they can be found all over the country. I would stay away from Ace paint as you want to buy your paint from a store that sells just paint for the best advice.

Many thanks to both of you. I went with Duron Weathershield. The regular price is about $40, and with a discount, I was able to get it for $32/gallon.

I'm taking the advice about good prep to heart. I just pressure washed all sides. There is no paint chip off on the sidings, but some on the trims. The house is 10 years old. It did take me a couple of days to replace some of the sidings and window nosings and caulking all the cracks.

I know it would be best to put on two coats, but I'm not sure if I'll have the patience to do it. Do you think it'll be ok if I paint just one coat but really carefully and cover it well?

Don't fall into that trap of "1 real good coat"!!! I don't care how good you put it on...2 coats are needed.

>>> Are you priming?!?!?!

* Think how much beating a coat of paint takes on the outside.
* One dried coat of paint isn't very thick!!
* 2 coats form a tougher film, & the color-layer is thicker...therefore color-DEPTH is better.
* Fading is somewhat minimized too.
* Do it RIGHT, NOW, & take a decade off!

>>> At OUR ACE store anyway...we've got a separate Paint dep't. We always counsel our clients on good prep, etc.
>>> Many, many satisfied ACE-Paint users up here.
>>> Assuming proper prep/priming, I'll put ACE-Royal up against 95% of the others out there.

Faron